{"id":84255,"date":"2018-11-01T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/quantum-on-the-edge-light-shines-on-new-pathway-for-quantum-technology"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:02:25","slug":"quantum-on-the-edge-light-shines-on-new-pathway-for-quantum-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/quantum-on-the-edge-light-shines-on-new-pathway-for-quantum-technology","title":{"rendered":"Quantum on the edge: Light shines on new pathway for quantum technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-on-the-edge-light-shines-on-new-pathway-for-quantum-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Australia have for the first time demonstrated the protection of correlated states between paired photons\u2014packets of light energy\u2014using the intriguing physical concept of topology. This experimental breakthrough opens a pathway to build a new type of quantum bit, the building blocks for quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>The research, developed in close collaboration with Israeli colleagues, is published today in the prestigious journal, <i>Science<\/i>, a recognition of the foundational importance of this work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can now propose a pathway to build robust entangled states for logic gates using protected pairs of photons,\u201d said lead author Dr. Andrea Blanco-Redondo at the University of Sydney Nano Institute.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-quantum-edge-pathway-technology.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-quantum-edge-pathway-technology.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Australia have for the first time demonstrated the protection of correlated states between paired photons\u2014packets of light energy\u2014using the intriguing physical concept of topology. This experimental breakthrough opens a pathway to build a new type of quantum bit, the building blocks for quantum computers. The research, developed in close collaboration with Israeli colleagues, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84273,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84255\/revisions\/84273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}